New management team and recent additions help drive record financial results and position the company for growth expansion plans.
Company adds expertise in key sales leadership, product knowledge, service, and delivery and the financial and compliance function.
BOCA RATON, Fla.-- Black Dragon Capital’s℠ FinTech portfolio company, Ladonware, has significantly enhanced its management team with dramatically deeper experience in growth and expansion with a series of new members to its management team. This reflects the emphasis on investing in the next growth phase for the company and serving financial institutions across Latin America and the Caribbean.
The outstanding results from 2023 are a testament to the remarkable growth the company has undergone after significant leadership changes in 2022-2023. In addition, Ladonware is pleased to announce its most recent executive hire, Maristela Martins. Martins has joined as Senior Vice-president of Sales and Marketing. This new hire is Ladonware’s first step in expanding its footprint across Latin and South America to foster growth.
The expanded management team includes:
- Maristela Martins who started at Ladonware on April 2024, as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. She brings over 30 years of experience in sales and marketing for the banking and payment sectors. She has deep experience and expertise in innovation, digital transformation, finance solutions, digital experience, core banking, AI, and ChatGPT, having worked for Galileo Financial Technologies, Backbase, Temenos, SAP, Fitch Ratings, The Thomson Corporation, Reuters Financial Software and Bloomberg. Maristela has helped banks across the LATAM region modernize legacy systems and adopt new technologies.
- Rodrigo Ortega who started at Ladonware on May 2023, as CFO. Rodrigo brings more than 20 years of experience in finance and leadership experience, having worked for PwC, Deloitte, Terex, CNH Industrial, and Konecranes. During 2023 Rodrigo established strong governance on finance and administrative matters for Ladonware, increasing internal controls, financial accuracy, implementing policies and procedures and managing cash flow accurately, with a reduction on DSO.
- Arnaldo Almeida who started at Ladonware on November 2023, as Chief Product and Operations Officer. Arnaldo brings more than 25 years of experience in technology services, with deep expertise in Cloud Computing, Agile, Innovation Management, and Project Management. He has worked for Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP. Arnaldo is implementing new KPI’s to manage the operations and establishing a lean culture, to gain efficiency while increasing customer response capacity and value creation. He is also working on the products roadmap to guarantee Ladonware product strategy in the short, medium, and long term.
- Drew Hyatt who started at Ladonware on October 2023, as the Executive Vice Chairman, became CEO in January 2023. Drew brings more than 30 years of experience in the Fintech industry, having worked as an executive for IBM, Digital Insight, Mitek Systems and HNC Software. He has a proven Fintech record of product innovation, sales, and start up product launches. Drew has established a modern and KPI driven leadership, with focus on customer and employee satisfaction, while having operational excellence and results oriented mindset.
To support the company’s growth and new contracts closed in 2023, the company is also investing in hiring professionals for operations and product support. In the last 4 months the company has already hired 13 experts to support operations and enhance the design and quality of our products.
“With the remarkable performance from 2023, Ladonware was able to confirm that all the efforts paid off”, said Ladonware’s Executive and Vice Chairman, Drew Hyatt. “Given that the path is now established, Ladonware is prepared to step forward and drive growth.”
About Black Dragon Capital℠
Black Dragon Capital℠ (BDC) is a global, multi-phased investment firm focused on advanced technologies in high growth segments that strengthen economic stability within communities. The firm was founded and led by a diverse team with a combination of intense operating experience, community impact focus, and a track record of successful investing. They work closely with entrepreneurs to build market leading companies using their proprietary Black Dragon Toolkit℠ and focus on high potential early stage, and mid-market technology companies in growth sectors disrupted by digitization.
About Ladonware
Ladonware is a leading cloud-based financial services software suite, providing core banking, digital banking, collections, and analytics solutions to organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean. With clients in 12 countries across LatAm and the Caribbean, with sales leads in Brazil, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, and Panama, Ladonware core processing system has established its sterling reputation over 25 years in the Latin American banking industry.
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